Day 6 of Disappearing Images. Jeremy Gilbert and Stephen Coates discuss what it means to excavate, recover, archive and understand the lost and disappearing histories of minor cultures, countercultures and bohemian radicalism.
Doors: 4pm
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Lost and Found: Remembering the Counterculture
In a meeting of podcasting minds, Stephen Coates (The Bureau of Lost Culture) and Jeremy Gilbert (ACFM, Love is the Message, Culture, Power, Politics) discuss what it means to excavate, recover, archive and understand the lost and disappearing histories of minor cultures, countercultures and bohemian radicalism. Is our age one of forgetting or remembering? Does it matter if we hold onto these histories? If the ‘golden age’ of ‘the counterculture’ was the 1970s and 1970s, how has the image of this period changed over subsequent decades, and what has that told us us about those changing times?
Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations. His most recent publications include Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020) and Hegemony Now : How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World, co-authored with Alex Williams (Verso 2022). Jeremy also maintains a lifelong commitment to public education outside the academy, currently hosting Culture, Power, Politics, a regular podcast and series of free open seminars and lectures. He is also a co-host of the popular podcasts Love is the Message and #ACFM.
https://www.jeremygilbert.org/
Stephen Coates is the presenter of Soho Radio’s Bureau of Lost Culture show dedicated to broadcasting countercultural stories and oral testimonies. His X-Ray Audio Project devoted to underground music in the USSR is now a book, an award-winning film, BBC documentary and touring exhibition. As a composer and producer, his credits include Amnesty International, BBC, HBO, Fox, Channel 4, Showtime, ABC, Warner, Rockstar Games, The British Film Institute, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate London and authors Stephen King and Glen Duncan. Stephen records and performs live as cult band The Real Tuesday Weld with whom he has made eight critically acclaimed albums and toured internationally.